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To: Alberta's Child

You are being a little selective in your history Child. The Obama admin refused to renegotiate the status of forces agreement. That was intentional on Obamas part. Whether the subsequent mayhem that followed visa vi rise of ISIS and insurgencies was also intentional or just lack of any common sense by Obama/Biden is irrelevant. With a status of forces agreement in place, the instability that has followed might have been avoided.

It took decades for us to recover Europe after WWII and it served us to do so for just as many decades. While the ME is not the same, we did have an opportunity to lead that region to a better place. That opportunity was squandered, and the blame goes across both parties.


76 posted on 09/03/2019 9:21:34 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: Magnum44
You are being a little selective in your history Child. The Obama admin refused to renegotiate the status of forces agreement.

Why would the U.S. "renegotiate" such an agreement? It was subject to renegotiation, then why the hell was it signed in the first place?

It took decades for us to recover Europe after WWII and it served us to do so for just as many decades.

If the U.S. allowed Germany to elect a Nazi government in 1946, Harry Truman and everyone in his administration would have been chained to flaming barges in the Potomac River.

78 posted on 09/03/2019 9:26:04 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
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